This one is a nifty little comic collection management tool.
I’ve started getting into comics lately, and with that comes (of course) the issue of sorting it all. After a bit of digging (and some frustrations with the tool known as ‘Mylar’), I came across ‘Kapowarr’. I compiled it from source, had a play, and thought “yeah, I like where this is going”. It is… very new. Features are being added at a rapid pace, and bugs are being fixed similarly quickly. It’s made by ‘mrcas’ – a dev over on github who writes some very nice Python (which I’m okay-ish at, not great).
It runs in Docker, gives you a web UI to add/manage content, and generally makes managing it a bit easier. I found it, thought it was awesome, reached out, and now help build the documentation.
You can find the Kapowarr project on github in the Casvt/Kapowarr repository, with the docs hosted on Github pages.
It’s intended to fit alongside the ‘*arr’ suite of apps – Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, etc. If you’re familiar with those, then the UI is pretty familiar. Simply add a comic volume after you’ve set it up, and let it pull the content in.
Once I had Kapowarr running, I needed to set up a nice way to consume the comics (well, not necessarily needed, but it’s definitely a quality-of-life improvement). For this, I settled on Komga – a nice browser-accessible comic library tool. Again, runs in docker – and can be set to periodically scan folders so that things just get auto-added once Kapowarr has done it’s thing. Super clean.
